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delivering,sufficient, safe and nutritious food to all in a sustainable manner

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delivering,sufficient, safe and nutritious food to all in a sustainable manner

  1. SOCIAL

  2. OVERNOURISHED

    • Wealth = Demand
        • Distribution Inefficiencies: global economies, trade agreements
        • cheap food
          • pressure on farmers and land
            • high energy inputs. need to minimise labour, costs, need high return on sustainable agriculture investments
              • Limits to growth: Peak Oil Peak Phosphorous, peak arable land Climate Change
        • Meat
          • CAFO
            • redirection of grain to meat production, antibiotic usage and resistance, reduced methane, economies of scale, amplification of zoonotic disease
          • Extensive production- deforestation, habitat loss
    • Education: consumer preferences, behaviour/ exercise
      • Urban environments: promoting consumption, not promoting exercise
      • poor food/food substitutes/processed food
      • niche markets organic, food miles, farmers markets
        • Reduced economies of scale
          • ?
    • Increased global footprint for food production per capita (declining population growth in wealthy countries but rapidly increasing numbers of wealthy from transitional countries
      • unsustainable natural resource use

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Political Ecology of Food
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